The International Seminars on Decolonization, which are sponsored by the National History Center, the American Historical Association, and the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, are generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. They bring together young historians from the United States and abroad to Washington, DC to study and discuss the history of decolonization in the 20th-century. The seminar takes place in July-August each year, with applications due in November of the previous year.
The National History Center of the American Historical Association has announced the lecturers who will speak in conjunction with the Eighth International Seminar on Decolonization, July 8 through August 2, 2013. Elizabeth Borgwardt, associate professor of history and law at Washington University in St. Louis, will give the first public lecture, scheduled for 4 p.m. [...]
History today often seems deeply divided, as public historians and educators complain about the disengagement of academics and college and university professors pursue increasingly esoteric subjects of research. Robert Townsend spoke on the findings of his recent book, History’s Babel, which looks back to the early decades of the historical enterprise to show how efforts to [...]
The National History Center is pleased to announce the following recently selected participants for our 8th Annual Decolonization Seminar. John Aerni-Flessner, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY Marc Andre, Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France Isabel de Souza Lima Junqueira Barreto, University Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Nicole Bourbonnais, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Leena Dallasheh, Center for Palestine [...]
International Seminar on Decolonization alumnus Christopher J. Lee delivered two major presentations on a decolonization-related topic this past month. At noon on Thursday, October 25, he discussed “The Indian Ocean as a ‘Zone of Peace’: Decolonization and the Politics of the Cold War between Africa and Asia” at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, [...]
Applications must be received by November 1, 2012 The National History Center invites applications from early-career scholars to participate in the eighth international summer seminar on decolonization, which will be held for four weeks, from Sunday, July 7, through Saturday, August 3, 2013, in Washington, D.C. As in the previous seven seminars in the series, [...]
On Tuesday, July 24 at 4 p.m., Lori Watt, Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis, will discuss the intersection of defeat, foreign occupation, and decolonization at the end of the Japanese Empire in the aftermath of the Second World War. She will explain the role of the Allies in 1945, who stood [...]
In conjunction with the 2012 International Seminar on Decolonization, the National History Center hosted a capacity crowd of more than 100 people for a talk by human rights scholar Samuel Moyn of Columbia University, with a comment by Mark Philip Bradley of the University of Chicago on July 17.
On Sunday, July 8, the National History Center will welcome the fifteen scholars selected to participate in the seventh annual International Seminar on Decolonization. They and their proposed projects are: Elisabetta Bini, European University Institute, Florence, “From Colony to Oil Producer: International Oil Politics in Libya, 1951-1969”; Michael Collins, University College London, “Sir Andrew Cohen: [...]
At the second public lecture held in conjunction with the National History Center’s sixth international seminar on decolonization, historian Eric Van Young (University of California at San Diego) will discuss “‘In Mexico There Are No Mexicans:’ Decolonization and Modernization, 1750-1850″ on Wednesday, July 20, 2011. The lecture will be in the Jefferson Room (LJ119) of [...]
The National History Center’s Sixth International Seminar on Decolonization has begun, with an opening reception to welcome everyone to Washington, D.C. for the month. During the next four weeks, fifteen historians at the beginning of their careers will pursue new research in the various research centers and archives in and around Washington. The focus is [...]